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Ethical standards in cyberspace are also a work in progress. Sites that participate in Amazon's "Associates Program" can earn commissions when people reading their reviews click on a hyperlink to Amazon and buy the product being reviewed. The payments are modest, up to 15%, but any sales commission amounts to an incentive to post favorable comments. Meanwhile, JoeytheFilmGeek and the Flick Filosopher write screenplays, which raises the question of whether they can objectively review product by the same film studios they might hope to interest in their scripts. In her recent rave review of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse...
...then there are teenagers. "I believe my 17-year-old daughter's entire wardrobe is on the floor," author Jordan says ruefully. If your teen has poor housekeeping habits, exhortation alone probably won't get her to improve. But money might motivate her. Jordan recommends giving teens a modest budget for their bedrooms, with the stipulations that they can't do anything permanent or destructive. (You decide whether painting the room black meets those criteria.) If that doesn't work, author Faull advises, back off. "There is so much for teens to rebel about--their bedroom is not a battle...
Just because the changes were modest, however, doesn't mean they were easy to implement. All the study volunteers were told to exercise and lose some weight. But it was those who had help figuring out what needed to change in their eating habits and how to work a daily walk into their routine who maintained their weight loss. It's not yet clear whether these lifestyle changes can actually prevent Type 2 diabetes or merely delay its onset for a few years. But a third of this group saw their blood-sugar levels fall back to normal--an especially...
...Creek, where the armada once assembled. Fan Ping owns one of them, the Sutai Yuyou 503, a small steel ship that doubles as her family's home. It's just 10 m long; the engine a mere 20 h.p. But the 49-year-old matriarch uses the modest craft to ply the waterways for riches. She finds oil spills, sucks them up with a powerful hose and resells the fuel. Cruising along the Liu Creek, looking for bounty, we stand together on the cramped deck, imagining what it was like in Zheng He's day. "I guess I have...
...repair speedboats when a musician friend suggested the material would be good to encase his cello: strong, light and capable of being molded to the peculiar shape of each instrument. Today, Pantelic numbers among his clients Yo-Yo Ma and Anner Bylsma, he of Servais fame. Pantelic is modest, saying his work "is just plastic and stinking chemicals." But one aspect of what he does would have applied equally to Stradivari: "I have no one between me and the customer...It's like coming to the tailor: your cello is getting its own suit...